Biography

Aleksandra "Shura" Toidze (11 March 1907 – 30 May 1985) was a Georgian stage and film actress. A longtime actress of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi, she was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1950. Toidze appeared in films from the mid-1920s, making her breakthrough in the title role of Dina Dza-Dzu (1926). From 1937 to 1964 she was an actress of the Rustaveli Theatre, where she played more than fifty roles, among them Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, Cordelia in King Lear, and Ekaterine Chavchavadze in Mikheil Mrevlishvili's Nikoloz Baratashvili. Her later film appearances included a role in Keto and Kote (1948). From 1971 until her death she was director of the Mose Toidze House-Museum in Tbilisi.